Engaging, educating, and employing our nation’s youth in conservation are major priorities for the Department of the Interior (Department), and in 2009 the Youth in the Great Outdoors (YGO) initiative was established.

This is a preliminary biological assessment of Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge. Stimulation for the report was based on the concept that future decisions related to the biological portion of the Comprehensive Conservation Plan will be based on the...

Communications, Outreach, and Visitor Services (COVS) Webinar Series.
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Is there a Visitor Services Step-Down Plan for your station? Would you like your visitor...

Conservation banks are permanently protected lands that contain natural resource values. These lands are conserved and permanently managed
for species that are endangered, threatened, candidates for listing, or are otherwise species-at-risk....

Work of the Service; Conservation; Land development; Landscape conservation; Policies;

The purpose of this brochure is to introduce some of the landowners who are using two innovative conservation tools: Safe Harbor Agreements and Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances. Although these tools only came into use within the...